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CoolPlayer
CoolPlayer is a nice, fast MP3 player targeted to Windows. This Open Source project is a nice piece of work, and the team has created a player that has the features to compete with good commercial players.
Build 214 of CoolPlayer shipped in June, 2003.
http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/Visual Text To Speech MP3
This product takes your text, converts it to speech, then stores the result in one of several compressed formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and G.721.
http://www.visual-mp3.com/text-to-speech/Spoofing the Wily CRC
This article on The Code Project web site shows you how to calculate a CRC, but even better it shows you how to create a file that will have a given CRC value.
http://codeproject.com/useritems/crcspoof.aspMP3FileInfo - Extract Header and ID3 Tags of a MP3 File
This tutorial provides a useful class that lets you access the ID3 tags hidden in most MP3 files.
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FreeZip
Freezip, by Dariusz Stanislawek, is a completely
free Win32 application that does the usual job of zipping and
unzipping files, and includes full integration with Windows
Explorer.
DIUcl
DIUcl is a freeware port of UCL to Borland’s Delphi language. UCL is the compressor used in the UPX Ultimate Packer for Executables by Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer. Decompression is extremely fast, and requires very little memory. The author claims that the decompressor fits into less than 200 bytes of code. Supports in-place compression and decompression. […]
http://www.zeitungsjunge.de/delphi/ucl/index.htmInformation Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms
This book by David MacKay can be downloaded chapter by chapter and printed out for free. No indication that you can buy a hardcopy, although Amazon.com claims it will be published in January, 2002. Please read this 600 page tome and provide a review for this space!
Update: The author tells me this book will […]
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SheerVideo
SheerVideo is a QuickTime video codec. Looks like they currently only support the Mac platform, but Linux and Windows support is promised soon.
http://www.bitjazz.com/sheervideo/Jpegpixi
This open source Linux project performs a very specialized task. It is used to repair images that have single pixel errors, such as that you might get from a camera with a single bad spot on the CCD. It interpolates from the neighboring pixels to create a new value, then inserts it without a decompress/recompress […]
http://jpegpixi.sourceforge.net/